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Bahar Candas; Muammer Çalik – Journal of Biological Education, 2023
This study aimed to facilitate grade 8 students' conceptual understanding of 'sustainable development (SD)' via Common Knowledge Construction Model (CKCM)-oriented instruction. Through a pre-experimental research approach, the study was conducted with 31 grade 8 students drawn from a secondary school in the city of Trabzon, Turkey. A word…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Concept Formation, Sustainable Development, Secondary School Students
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Ozkan Akman; Kubra Durgun – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2023
Concepts are where the foundation of scientific knowledge and thought structures are laid. Thanks to concepts, distinctions or generalisations about an event or an entity are formed and thought structures are formed in our minds. In this study, it was aimed to determine the associations in the minds of secondary school 6th grade students about the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Grade 6, Social Studies
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Aysegül Derman; Figen Gunes; Ozcan Gulacar; Ingo Eilks – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2024
This study aims to determine the cognitive structures of students at different educational levels (8th grade and 12th grade) related to acid-base chemistry. The research was designed as a case study and structured in two stages. The first stage analyzed concepts related to acid-base chemistry and their direction and strength in students' knowledge…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Cognitive Structures, Grade 8
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Karaman, Burcu; Karakus, Ufuk – Participatory Educational Research, 2022
The aim of this study is to examine the cognitive structures of the secondary school students towards the concept of health. The study was carried out using the descriptive survey model, which is a research approach that intends to describe a past or present situation as it is. The study group of the research was determined by maximum diversity…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Cognitive Structures, Health, Concept Formation
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Ürek, Handan; Dolu, Gamze – Gifted Education International, 2020
The aim of this study was to determine the conceptual structures of exceptionally talented students about chemical change through the use of word associations. The study was conducted with 13 exceptionally talented students in seventh grade who were attending a science and art center located in a province in western Turkey. Data were collected…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academically Gifted, Associative Learning, Grade 7
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Demirbas, Cagri Ozturk – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2017
The objective of this study is to determining the change in secondary school students' cognitive structure related to the concepts of environmental problems. There were 21th grades students of two middle schools in Kirsehir. In this research, the students participated in outdoor activities on environmental education programmes during 5 weekends…
Descriptors: Pretests Posttests, Environmental Education, Cognitive Structures, Foreign Countries